And The Wind Cries ‘Boris’

Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government

Institute for Government

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Is the smorgasbord of Big Ideas that Boris Johnson announced to the virtual Conservative Conference actually deliverable? Do plans for the Saudi Arabia of wind, expanded social care and a New Jerusalem all at once contradict one another? And as the Corona bills come in, is crunch time on the way for former distributor of good news and sunshine Rishi Sunak? Special guest SALMA SHAH, former advisor to Sajid Javid, joins us for the IfG’s own autumn statement. “Nobody doubts that the Government can make big announcements. The question is whether they can deliver it.” – Jill Rutter “This wasn’t a traditionally Conservative speech and this isn’t a traditional Conservative government.” – Salma Shah “When we hear about 30 year mortgages or social care or offshore wind, it’s fair to wonder why nobody’s delivered them so far. And the answer is, it’s hard.” - Giles Wilkes “We’ve had two consecutive governments that are, for Conservatives, amazingly uninterested in what business has to say.” – Jill Rutter Presented by Bronwen Maddox with Jill Rutter and Giles Wilkes. Audio production by Alex Rees See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Inside Briefing, the podcast from the Institute for Government.
0:14.0	I'm Bronwyn Maddox.
0:16.0	Blackpool's Winter Gardens, the beachfront at Bournemouth and Brighton,
0:20.0	huge international conference centres in Manchester and Birmingham.
0:23.7	And now, a bare room in Canary Wharf was just a video camera company.
0:28.7	Yes, the Conservative Party conference was not immune to the effects of COVID-19, and the staging of the Prime Minister's speech was a long way from anything delivered by his predecessors.
0:37.3	We're going to dissect Boris Johnson's vision of a new Jerusalem and take a look at what he said,
0:42.3	what he didn't, what it means for the government and the country.
0:45.3	Rishi Sunak, the party's golden boy at the moment, also took to the virtual podium and gave a speech more focused on the present than the future.
0:52.3	We'll take a look at the Chancellor's message and whether it's at odds with the Prime Ministers.
0:57.0	Despite all efforts, carefully choreographed conferences, announcements, press releases,
1:03.0	and policy pledges, that always at the mercy of events, such as a data error,
1:07.0	which has led to 16,000 COVID test results being mislaid. We're going to look at what went wrong
1:12.4	and what the government needs to get its test and trace regime back on track. To discuss all that,
1:18.3	I'm joined in our virtual studio by IFG senior fellow, Jill Rutter. Hello, Giles Wilkes.
1:23.8	Hi there, Bormin. And I'm delighted to be joined too by Salma Shah, a former special advisor
1:28.1	at a number of government departments, including working for Sajad Javid during his time as Home Secretary.
1:32.9	Great to have you with us today. Hello. All right, let's plunge in and let's start with a
1:37.7	Prime Minister's speech. No packed hall of party members, which meant no laughter, no cheers, no applause. It's safe to say that this
1:44.7	would have been a new experience for Boris Johnson. Salma, how will his team have approached
1:49.1	such a surreal address? So I almost feel that given everything else that's going on
1:56.9	in government at the moment, this is actually sort of a bit of welcome respite from the usual
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